Long Live the New Archbishop!

Today, Wednesday, October 30, 2024, you are invited to join others from around the Anglican Church in North America and the Anglican world for a special Service of the Investiture of Archbishop Steve Wood.

This historic service, similar to a commissioning, will be held in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina (just outside of Charleston) at 6:30 p.m. at Seacoast Church.

Livestream from the event will be shown on the ACNA’s Youtube channel here or on the ACNA Facebook page.

I am so glad that ACNA has Steve Wood to look after us rather than that other Archbishop across the pond who doesn't recognize ACNA as an Anglican province. Why, you say? Just take a look at what is going on in merry olde England,

From The Church Times,

The Archbishop of Canterbury was “giving a personal view” when he told a podcast this week that all sexual activity should be “within a committed relationship” — whether marriage or a civil partnership — Lambeth Palace has clarified in a statement.

“There is no consensus among the bishops on this question, and the Church remains deeply divided” on the issue, the statement said.

During an episode of The Rest is Politics, recorded in the crypt of Lambeth Palace and published on Monday, one of the presenters, Alastair Campbell, returned to a question that he had put to the Archbishop in an interview in 2017: “Is gay sex sinful?” He recalled that the Archbishop’s answer then had been: “I haven’t got a good answer,” and asked whether he now had a “better answer”.

The Archbishop said that he did: “What the Archbishop of York and I and the Bishops, by a majority, by no means unanimous, and the Church is deeply split over this — where we’ve come to is to say that all sexual activity should be within a committed relationship, and whether it’s straight or gay.

“In other words, we are not giving up on the idea that sex is within marriage or civil partnership, or whether marriage is civil or religious, and that, therefore, we have put forward a proposal that, where people have been through a civil partnership or a same-sex marriage, equal marriage, under the 2014 Act, they should be able to come along to a church and have a service of prayer and blessing for them in their lives together.”

Justin Welby has renounced the wisdom God has provided us in the Bible.   

The Anglican Communion is dead, long live the new Archbishop of ACNA!